




Neighbors rejected a plan to turn site into a nail salon last spring.

Last Wednesday (Sept 2.) Rita Steele and her mother, Hilarie Jackson, crammed into the Gilman Chapel at Cedar Grove Cemetery with about 100 other observers and listened closely as the names of 133 Black women interred beneath two vague markers in the burial ground were read out loud. As the 35th name was announced, “Sarah Smith,” the two women cheered.

When Fields Corner’s Taina Mair was selected as the 14th pick in the first round of the 2026 WNBA draft last April, she reminded her Boston neighbors that if you work hard enough, your dreams can take you anywhere.

Fresh Mediterranean flavors arrived in Dorchester last month when Thelo Mediterranean opened for diners at 860 Dot Ave, replacing Taqueria Casa Real’s tacos and burritos with gyros and souvlaki.

A frantic search for Milly, a 17-year-old blind and deaf dog who had wandered away from her fenced-in yard on Ashmont Hill home on Monday, ended happily on Monday.

“Massachusetts is famous for having uncontested races, and because of that, people really settle in because they think no one is watching,” Gayle told The Reporter.

Morris is hosting a KO Cancer Fundraiser at Dorchester Brewing Co. this Thursday evening (Sept. 17), just a little over a month before Haymakers for Hope’s Belles of the Brawl at MGM Music Hall.